Dutch Resistance

The Dutch Resistance was an underground resistance movement that operated in the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945 during World War II. The first organized resistance was formed by communists in the occupied Netherlands after Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht invaded, and most groups had trouble surviving betrayal in the first two years of the war. The resistance reached 300,000 members at its height in 1944, and the Dutch were engaged in counterintelligence, domestic sabotage, and communications with the Allies, and 2,000 Dutch Resistance members would be killed by the Germans during the war. The resistance operated until the end of the war, as the Netherlands' final liberation came about as the result of the German surrender in May 1945.